My first thread, Clever me

I'm Wayne and I'm a cornet player in the Army, currently with The Normandy Band of the Queens Division in sunny Catterick North Yorkshire, but spend quite a bit of time playing for various groups around the area.

I'm also playing for Barnard Castle Brass Band, on top cornet (dizzying heights) after a while finding my way around the band, Rep to Horn back to rep to sop to euph to 3rd man down and finally to principal. All this in 3 years!

I've always loved playing music so I decided to join the Army where else can a normal blower get paid for playing music without really going to a music college? I've been in 7 years now and loving it. In the past few years i've toured Norway, Cyprus, Europe, Canada and Iraq. I've also played for the Royals more times than I can mention, played with the Halle Orchestra, the Scottish National Operaand also shared a stage with Pavarotti, Westlife, Jamie Cullum, The Miami Sound Machine and The Osmonds.